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May's Top Ten Most Clicked Bethlehem Stories
A fire at a television show filming, fox attacks in the West Side and a city man charged with bigamy are all in the Top Ten. What story do you think is #1?
10. Mayor Rescues Puerto Rican Pooch
Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan rescued a Portuguese water dog from Puerto Rico where an estimated 100,000 stray dogs have overrun the island and are often abused and tortured.
9. Sisters Get in Knife Fight in South Side: Police
A woman came after her sister with a kitchen knife in a South Bethlehem apartment then resisted arrest after police arrived, according to court papers.
A South Bethlehem couple who left their 10-month-old daughter in the care of a nephew and his friend returned home to find their infant home alone and that they had been cleaned out of $1,500 cash, a laptop computer and a video game system, police said.
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A fox attacked two men in separate incidents in Bethlehem, and it was later destroyed by an Animal Control Officer because of its aggressiveness, police said.
A supervisor in the “cage”—the center of cash storage and distribution at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem—is accused of stealing $10,000 from his employer, according to court papers.
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5. Bethlehem Man Charged with Bigamy
Easton police say a Bethlehem man got married in the city earlier this year despite already being married to another woman. Edward Odin's wife contacted police in late January to say that her husband had married another woman, police said.
4. Fire Mars 'Restaurant Impossible' Filming
A fire broke out in the kitchen of Fountain Hill's Benner Street Restaurant while the Food Network and Chef Robert Irvine were fillming an episode of "Restaurant Impossible."
Two Bethlehem women were among 11 arrested in a prostitution sting at Platinum Plus, an Allentown strip club, according to the Pennsylvania Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement.
The owner of Seriously Girlie Couture, a Bethlehem Township spa and salon, fraudulently used debit card numbers of two of her customers, police said.
1. Did You See UFOs Over Bethlehem on March 3?
A sighting of about 100 bluish objects floating and then suddenly accelerating over South Mountain is being investigated by a senior field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network in Pennsylvania.
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